Fintech Challenges and Outlook in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 136-153
Author(s):  
Neeta Baporikar
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Financial Services ◽  
Business Models ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Foreign Markets ◽  
Indian Economy ◽  
Exploratory Approach ◽  
New Business ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
New Business Models

Fintech refers to the novel processes and products that become available for financial services due to the digital technological advancements. Fintech includes technologically enabled financial innovation leading to new business models, applications, processes, or products with an associated material effect on financial markets, institutions, and financial services. India is transitioning into a dynamic ecosystem offering Fintech start-ups a platform to grow into billion-dollar unicorns. From tapping new segments to exploring foreign markets, Fintech in India is pursuing multiple targets. The traditionally cash-driven Indian economy has responded well to the Fintech opportunity, primarily triggered by a surge in e-commerce, and Smartphone penetration. However, India's growth is still not comparable in scale to its global counterparts but is stacked well, due to a strong talent pipeline of the tech workforce. Hence, adopting an exploratory approach, based on in-depth literature review, the chapter aims to identify the challenges and deliberate on the outlook for Fintech in India.

scholarly journals Literature review on business prototypes for digital platform

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shrutika Mishra ◽  
A. R. Tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
New Business ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
The Way

Abstract In today’s world, many digitally enabled start-ups are budding all over the globe because of the fast enhancement in digital technologies. For the establishment of new business, it is necessary to adopt a proper business model which needs to define the way in which the company will provide values and the ways in which the customers can pay for their services. This paper aims to study the various business models being used in today’s marketplace and to provide a better understanding for these business models by having an insight on the attributes.

scholarly journals Backcasting for desirable futures in Finnish forest-based firms

foresight ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Annukka Näyhä
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Strong Basis ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Theoretical Contribution ◽  
New Business ◽  
Participative Approach ◽  
Sustainable Business Models ◽  
New Business Models

Purpose In Finland, new forest-based sector (FBS) businesses are seen as important for the transition to the circular bioeconomy. The purpose of this study is to explore the transition of Finnish FBS companies to new business models. The aim is to understand how FBS companies define their ideal future states and related business models for the year 2030. Design/methodology/approach This study uses thematic interviews with managers from various FBS firms and companies from interfacing sectors. In the interviews, the key idea of backcasting was pursued when respondents discussed the desirable future states of their business. Findings The effort to achieve growth of the business and the appearance of new products characterize the company-specific desirable future states. In these desirable futures, expanded businesses will be based on strong knowledge. Resource efficiency and collaboration create a strong basis for the desirable future state of the whole FBS to create a sustainable and innovative “Wood Valley.” Research limitations/implications The key limitations are that the backcasting process has been conducted only through interviews and a participative approach with stakeholder dialogue is lacking in the process. This means that the desirable futures are created by the FBS companies only. Originality/value As a practical contribution, the study shows the future-oriented thinking and goals of FBS firms. As a theoretical contribution, it extends research on sustainable business models and discussions on the novel field of corporate foresight.

scholarly journals How to feed The Ferret: Understanding subscribers in the search for a sustainable model of investigative journalism

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 1320-1337
Author(s):  
John Price
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Online News ◽  
Investigative Journalism ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
New Business ◽  
Political Spectrum ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
New Business Models

The Ferret was founded in Scotland in 2015 as a co-operative. Drawing funding from a variety of sources – including grants, crowdfunding, training and events – the organisation relies heavily on subscriptions for its core business model. The Ferret is one of a number of recent digital start-ups seeking to explore new ways of funding and sustaining investigative journalism against a backdrop of declining levels of such journalism from the mainstream media. Despite this, to date there has been very little detailed, empirical work into subscription or membership models of funding journalism. This article begins to address this by presenting the results of an online survey of The Ferret’s subscribers. The findings are discussed in the context of recent work from international scholars about paying for online news and new business models for public interest journalism. The results suggest that subscribers tend to be middle aged or older, to the left of the political spectrum and motivated mainly by a desire to support the production of investigative journalism – rather than gain exclusive access to its content. The article concludes by arguing that recruiting such people offers a potentially sustainable membership model for investigative journalism platforms, whereby journalism for the benefit of society is funded by the few.

scholarly journals Social Payments: Innovation, Trust, Bitcoin, and the Sharing Economy

2017 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 13-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Taylor C. Nelms ◽  
Bill Maurer ◽  
Lana Swartz ◽  
Scott Mainwaring
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Novel Technologies ◽  
On Demand ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Business ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
New Business Models ◽  
Rapid Transformation

The payments industry – the business of transferring value through public and corporate infrastructures – is undergoing rapid transformation. New business models and regulatory environments disrupt more traditional fee-based strategies, and new entrants seek to displace legacy players by leveraging new mobile platforms and new sources of data. In this increasingly diversified industry landscape, start-ups and established players are attempting to embed payment in ‘social’ experience through novel technologies of accounting for trust. This imagination of the social, however, is being materialized in gated platforms for payment, accounting, and exchange. This paper explores the ambiguous politics of such experiments, specifically those, like Bitcoin or the on-demand sharing economy, that delineate an economic imaginary of ‘just us’ – a closed and closely guarded community of peers operating under the illusion that there are no mediating institutions undergirding that community. This provokes questions about the intersection of payment and publics. Payment innovators’ attenuated understanding of the social may, we suggest, evacuate the nitty-gritty of politics.

scholarly journals Regulating Financial Services in an Era of Technological Disruption

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Louis De Koker ◽  
Nicholas Morris ◽  
Sue Jaffer
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Controlled Environment ◽  
Innovative Products ◽  
New Business ◽  
Vehicles Emissions ◽  
Financial Regulatory ◽  
New Business Models ◽  
Financial Technology ◽  
Regulatory Challenges

Financial regulators are challenged to respond to the innovation opportunities presented by financial technology (fintech). Current rules are not necessarily sufficient or effective to adequately regulate new business models and new products relating to innovations such as crypto assets or digital financial services. Regulators that fail to respond in a timely manner may drive innovation offshore and deprive their markets and consumers of appropriate, new services. To respond to new financial innovation, regulators have been establishing innovation hubs and regulatory sandboxes. Innovation hubs enable them to engage innovators more effectively. Sandboxes allow the products to be tested in a controlled environment and enable to regulator to consider whether existing laws are appropriate to regulate such products and, of not, what measures may be required. Sandboxes are however resource intensive and they hold a number of risks. Financial regulators are, of course, not alone in having to address the regulatory challenges of innovation. This article therefore also considers other non-financial regulatory experiences of innovative products and services, namely automated vehicles; emissions trading in China; and Uber and its clones, to consider whether those experiences hold lessons for financial regulators.

scholarly journals Financial regulation in the age of the platform economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry Eichengreen
Keyword(s):  
Financial Services ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Financial Regulation ◽  
Consumer Experience ◽  
Dominant Position ◽  
Customer Data ◽  
Scalable Networks ◽  
New Business ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Start Ups

AbstractPlatform businesses allow for collaboration with nontraditional partners and bring together different categories of customers, in the financial context savers and investors or lenders and borrowers, creating large, scalable networks of users. Their entry into finance promises potential benefits to consumers in the form of new products, lower prices, wider choice, and enhanced consumer experience. At the same time, their new business models and technologies potentially threaten the dominant position of traditional financial services providers and create challenges for regulators. Platform businesses can use their preferential access to customer data to skim off high-quality loans, leaving only low-quality customers for other lenders. Their ability to offer complementary nonfinancial services that cannot be supplied by FinTech start-ups and banks can make it difficult or unattractive for customers to switch to alternative providers. This danger is especially acute when BigTech firms have monopoly power in other markets that complement financial services.

scholarly journals Innovating and Entrepreneurial Initiatives: Some Cases of Success

10.28945/3717 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 139-161
Author(s):  
Marta Machín ◽  
Carmen De Pablos Heredero
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Market Competition ◽  
New Business ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Good Relation ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
A Company ◽  
Potential Customers ◽  
New Business Models

Aim/Purpose: To understand the change of entrepreneurial initiatives by analysing some new initiatives that came up the last years based on IT enabled business models Background: The theme is described from an educational perspective by offering examples of successful entrepreneurship initiatives Methodology: Description of some cases: Waynabox, Lock up, Uber, Pinterest Contribution: This project tries to become a guide for youth in order to understand various aspects: first, the entrepreneurial aspects that have to be considered before starting a business; secondly, the characteristics that successful businesses have in common; and finally how an entrepreneur can be innovative and how they can achieve the success Findings: Only the 10% of the start-ups exist more than three years. Among the causes of failure are the high saturation of the market and the market competition, which are connected to the ignorance of the real necessity of customers. The company has to identify the needs of customers. They have to define and target their customers by observing and analyzing the market and, above all, getting in touch with the customers. The business plan is something that has to be carried out before the beginning of the project, and has to exist on paper. Everything has to be planned and organised, and the objectives have to be clearly stated in order to stay focused Recommendations for Practitioners : To use existent business models as an inspiration for the creation of a new business model. It is really important to avoid copying the business model itself. One thing that a company needs to do is to make the difference offering new characteristics adapted to the current customer’s experiences Recommendation for Researchers: It is really important to have a good relation with the customer, to attend their needs and to help them with all the doubts that they can have about the company. An entrepreneur cannot be guided by his own interests. He has to invest in order to know the needs of the potential customers Impact on Society : Customer experience is key to have success in new business models

Innovation in the Age of Digital Disruption

2020 ◽  
pp. 752-772
Author(s):  
Diana Claudia Cozmiuc ◽  
Ioan I. Petrisor
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Universal Language ◽  
Start Up ◽  
New Business ◽  
Worldwide Phenomenon ◽  
Digital Disruption ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
A Company ◽  
New Business Models

Digital disruption is a worldwide phenomenon whereby digital technology brings new business models that disrupt existing markets. Business models have become key to digital disruption, as the universal language of innovation from invention. The latest business models shift from pipeline material flow to knowledge creation in platforms. Open innovation is part of platform business models. Business models are now financed directly, which has created the lean start-up movement. Start-ups enter markets with no barriers and force incumbents to race them with the ability to compete based on business models and match start-up agility and creativity. One of the world's top innovators, Siemens, a company where innovation is strategy, uses the latest tools for innovation: open innovation for technology invention, business models to turn invention into innovation, and finances business models. A large company, Siemens has created an inner structure that intends to bring the advantages of the lean start-up movement indoors.

Innovation in the Age of Digital Disruption

2020 ◽  
pp. 1124-1144
Author(s):  
Diana Claudia Cozmiuc ◽  
Ioan I. Petrisor
Keyword(s):  
Open Innovation ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Universal Language ◽  
Start Up ◽  
New Business ◽  
Worldwide Phenomenon ◽  
Digital Disruption ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
A Company ◽  
New Business Models

Digital disruption is a worldwide phenomenon whereby digital technology brings new business models that disrupt existing markets. Business models have become key to digital disruption, as the universal language of innovation from invention. The latest business models shift from pipeline material flow to knowledge creation in platforms. Open innovation is part of platform business models. Business models are now financed directly, which has created the lean start-up movement. Start-ups enter markets with no barriers and force incumbents to race them with the ability to compete based on business models and match start-up agility and creativity. One of the world's top innovators, Siemens, a company where innovation is strategy, uses the latest tools for innovation: open innovation for technology invention, business models to turn invention into innovation, and finances business models. A large company, Siemens has created an inner structure that intends to bring the advantages of the lean start-up movement indoors.

When Does the Underdog Win?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Birger Wernerfelt
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
General Mechanism ◽  
Entry Barriers ◽  
New Business ◽  
Start Ups ◽  
New Business Models

In several celebrated examples, incumbents with significant resources have been beaten, in their own core businesses, by young start-ups. We identify a general mechanism that explains how these entrants can succeed against seemingly impossible odds. Specifically, we argue that they circumvent the entry barriers by using new business models that do not depend on the hard-to-imitate resources protecting the incumbent. While the entrants are gaining experience with their business models, they develop their own hard-to-imitate resources, and these eventually allow them to expand into the incumbents’ core markets. We formalize the argument in a model, derive several comparative static predictions, and illustrate it with a number of examples. The mechanism does not work if the incumbents react immediately, but we will draw on the literature on corporate inertia to argue that three of the mechanism’s properties make it especially likely that incumbents will be slow to adopt new business models.

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